The satellite town

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The satellite town (French original title: Le Domaine des Dieux ) is the 17th volume of the Asterix comic series and was written by René Goscinny and drawn by Albert Uderzo . In 1971 it appeared in the French magazine Pilote in issues # 591 to 612. In Germany it was published in 1974 as a volume. It is the successor to Asterix at the Swiss and the predecessor of The Laurels of Caesar .

action

Julius Caesar tries to break the resistance of the Gallic village by building a city based on the Roman model in the immediate vicinity. But the architect Quadratus and the legionnaires tasked with his security soon faced problems: The clearing of the construction site initially failed because the Gauls regrow the oaks that had been torn up at night with the help of acorns, which the druid Miraculix treated with a magic substance to let. When slaves are used for the clearing work, Asterix and Obelix deliver magic potions to them in their accommodation at the Roman camp Aquarium to support an uprising. But the slaves use their unfamiliar powers to get better working conditions and pay. After the tree felling work has been completed, they should then be released. Since this threatens to fail due to the constant regrowth of the trees, the Numidian chief slave Duplikatha finally asks the Gauls to stop sowing the magic areas, whereupon the first insula can be built.

Some of the Roman residents are forcibly recruited as part of a competition in the Circus Maximus in Rome , but initially feel at home in Gaul. The Roman housewives do not follow the legionnaires' proposal to buy their food in the surrounding camps until the shopping center is completed, but decide to meet their needs in the Gallic village - with the result that prices rise there and a shop after the other is opened. This causes considerable strife and Caesar's plan seems to be working.

Now Asterix and Obelix step in. Obelix poses as an aggressive madman who can only be kept under control with difficulty, while Asterix acts as his keeper. After explaining to a Roman couple who had come to their apartment as a result of the competition and were frightened several times by Obelix that their friend had unfortunately escaped his supervision, this couple leaves in panic. The bard Troubadix moves into the vacated apartment. After his first singing exercises in the new domicile, the rest of the Roman tenants also move out hastily.

In order not to leave the insula empty, the Roman commander quartered his legionaries in the block of flats, who immediately began to discuss the quality of the housing and co-owners' meetings in a petty bourgeois manner. Troubadix is ​​roughly removed from the insula, which serves as an occasion for the inhabitants of the Gallic village to attack the legionnaires, to destroy the only house in the satellite town and to let the forest grow again, so that after this happy outcome the traditional banquet can be held .

Remarks

The centurion Hasenfus quotes the Greek inscription Gnothi seauton ( dt. : Know thyself! ) Of the Apollo temple of Delphi without knowing its meaning.

In the French original, the Roman architect is called Anglaigus , derived from angle aigu - " acute angle ". Centurion Hasenfus is called Oursenplus in French , from ours en peluche - " teddy bear ".

References within the series

At the beginning of the comic, the defeat of Vercingetorix is ​​described from Caesar's point of view. In the volumes Asterix the Gauls and Asterix and the Arvernerschild there appears a "counter-representation" of this scene from a Gallic point of view, in which Vercingetorix by no means depressed and broken his weapons are not before Caesar, but rather thrown on his feet, which causes him to cry out in pain. This second representation of the defeat of the Gauls is missing in “Die Trabantenstadt”.

Modern covers

Quadratus be attributed to the beginning of the comic various inventions of later times, such as the construction of the first " buy Domus " where there is anything easy or a " drive-Reins ", which according to the principle of a drive-in cinema works: The Quad Rigae are here grouped around the fighting area in an amphitheater . The construction of the satellite town itself and the massive advertising campaigns to find residents also have models in the 20th century, such as the construction of the Parly II high-rise district.

Allusions to people

The quiz master in Circus Maximus , who forces the winner to accept the prize - an apartment in the satellite town - against his will, is a caricature by the French television entertainer Guy Lux and is named Francocampus after Peter Frankenfeld in the German-language edition . Another caricature is a slave in the image of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa .

publication

In France, the story first appeared as a series in the French magazine Pilote in issues # 591 to 612 in 1971 and was published as an album in 1971 by Dargaud . In the German translation, the story was first published by Ehapa-Verlag from 1971 in the MV-Comix magazine (issues 18/1971 to 5/1972) and published in 1974 as the 17th volume in the Asterix series. In 2002 this volume was published with a new cover design. In 2015, a limited special edition with a new cover picture, expanded by 16 pages, was published on the occasion of the film's release.

The volume was published in English , Spanish , Turkish and Alemannic , as well as in the regional lectures Berlinerisch , Hamburgisch and Ruhrdeutsch .

filming

The comic served as a template for the 2015 animation film Asterix in the Land of the Gods .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.comedix.de: Die Trabantenstadt - Volume XVII